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Don’t forget that as we did with the OVAB summit a few weeks back we will have contributors at TOMORROW’S ‘Building Your Digital Signage Business‘ Summit keeping up with events via Twitter. Our technical team have automated the Twitter feed to create a dynamic, self-update blog post, so all you need to is sit back […]

JCDecaux and UK broadcaster Sky launch have just announced a new ‘News Channel’ in London. We saw this ourselves being trialled last week on the Daktronics LED along the Cromwell Road and it has been in test pretty much across the whole PrimeTime digital network during parts of November. Now though it’s officially live and […]

Esprit Digital tell us that they had a good Electronica 2008 show in Munich last week. They were demonstrating their StreetBright product in the e-signage forum. This was the first time that the show had this kind of forum – let’s hope they rename it next year (e-signage is frankly a ridiculous term) Conrac were […]

The Out-of-home Video Advertising Bureau (OVAB) European chapter was announced today and although we have a couple of reservations and a few words of warning we are VERY excited about what this organisation might achieve going forward. First of all, OVAB Europe is at the moment pretty **German centric. That’s not an issue nor surprising […]

Late yesterday we wrote ‘Coolsign’s Gaming Portion Goes To Bally Technologies‘ and minutes before that ‘Coolsign SOLD – Well, Parts Of It Anyway!!!‘ and it’s worthwhile we feel taking another quick look at the deal. First it’s important to stress that what has been sold is NOT the whole of Coolsign. The piece that has […]

We have known about this for some time but were VERY SURPRISED today on the manner of the announcement – an email from Minicom before the agreed press embargo deadline. Anyway, caught unawares so to speak, see www.ovab.eu Today, consumers are spending more and more time away from their homes. Subsequently, advertisers are spending more […]

On Wednesday 3rd December 2008 POPAIdigital are holding one of their regular networking events in London. This will be held at the IPA, Belgravia. There’s no particular theme to the evening but there are a number of interesting speakers including us (interesting that is) wrapping up the evening… 5:30pm – Drinks and registration 6:00pm – […]

Here’s the press release from, literally a few minutes ago on Bally Technologies acquisition of Planar’s gaming portion of Coolsign… BALLY TECHNOLOGIES ACQUIRES PLANAR’S COOLSIGN® DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS FOR THE GAMING INDUSTRY Company integrates CoolSign media-management system into Networked Floor of the Future™ technology suite LAS VEGAS, November 17, 2008 – Bally Technologies, Inc. […]

It was only during the last few days of September that we were the first to tell you that ‘Planar’s Coolsign For Sale USD 20 Million‘ so it’s a big hats off (we suspect) to Needham & Company, LLC who have been handling the sale process. Anyway, Planar has just sold the rights and business […]

Just noticed this in Oxford Street, London. These are rear projection screens, one on the ground floor (street level) and one larger on the first floor of the building. This is in a building opposite the steps to the Bond Street Tube station. There seemed to be audio as well. We think it is a […]